This is slick,

 

Prodrive basicaly takes a tiny Subaru R1 city car, puts their own body and interior on it, then stuffs the WRX STI motor in it but with bigger turbos, a revamped awd control system.... and this is what comes out....

 

 

of course pics are nice, but here you can see it in action.

Fans of TopGear, this is the ride that made Jeremy Clarkson lose his lunch:lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK48r6651d4

 

Stedler

"Who is 'General Failure', and why is he reading my Hard Disk?"

I have no words.

I have no words.

 

i do

 

GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE

 

nipper:banana:

Old news, but the rumor has it that this will be the next Impreza.

from the website;

 

>>>>>Ah, now the active diffs. Yes, there's one of these in the middle of the car and another one on the back axle. The middle one controls what proportion of the torques from the engine go to the back wheels and what proportion go to the fronts. And the diff at the back does the same, splitting the torques between the rear wheels. They're both controlled by a very clever computer that has a speed sensor, a steering angle sensor and something called a 'yaw sensor' which sort of measures the line that the car is taking through a corner. This is very important. If the computer looks at your steering angle and then the yaw sensor tells it the car is turning through the corner less sharply than it should be for that amount of steering lock it thinks, 'uh-oh, that's understeer'. Then it telegraphs the centre differential and tells it to make sure more torques are going to the back axle so that the front stops dragging the car wide, like a front wheel drive car would. But then, as the car leaves the corner it tells the centre diff to push more torques forward to pull the car out of the turn without oversteering like a rear wheel drive car would. Hmm, yes, that sounds about right. Ah, and the active rear diff helps you out in sudden changes of direction so that if the car is looking like it might spin, the computer can step in and push torques to one wheel to push the rear of the car back on line. And all this computer thinking and moving of torques can happen in milliseconds. It's very clever. It's also made my brain hurt."<<<<<

 

fyi

 

Carl

Yeah the car itself is old news... but Corky, where did you see that this could become the new Impreza??

 

If that becomes the new Impreza without being Edsel-ized, I will get one. That does look awesome.